Hypersonic testing is too expensive and too scarce
Access is limited
Specialist test infrastructure is scarce, oversubscribed, and difficult to schedule.
Iteration is too slow
Low-cadence testing limits learning cycles and delays development.
Every test carries risk
When a flight costs millions, each one has to work. Programs stop experimenting.
The result is slower development and slower fielding.
Move the complexity to the ground.
The accelerator is stationary infrastructure. It is reused shot after shot, and the expensive high-performance hardware never leaves the ground. That is what makes a high test cadence affordable. It is the difference between a single-use article that reaches its target speed once and a system built to fire repeatedly.
Proven today. Scaling on a stated schedule.
- PROVEN
MACH 1-5
100+ shots fired
- Fall 2026
Hydrogen Testing
Barstow, California
- April-may 2027
Mach 5-7
20–100 kg payloads
29-inch Big Iron - Cadence Target
Daily
Designed to fire once a day
Proven today. Scaling on a stated schedule.
- PROVEN
MACH 1-5
100+ shots fired
- FALL 2026
HYDROGEN
TESTINGBarstow, California
- APRIL–MAY 2027
MACH 5–7
20–100 kg payloads
29-inch Big Iron - CADENCE TARGET
DAILY
Designed to fire once a day
Application areas
What could be done with our reusable high-speed test platform.
Hypersonics
High-cadence developmental flight testing for vehicle and subsystems.
Hypersonics
High-cadence developmental flight testing for vehicle and subsystems.
Hypersonics
High-cadence developmental flight testing for vehicle and subsystems.
Hypersonics
High-cadence developmental flight testing for vehicle and subsystems.
Hypersonics
High-cadence developmental flight testing for vehicle and subsystems.
Hypersonics
High-cadence developmental flight testing for vehicle and subsystems.
“By developing Longshot’s tech, AFRL RQH stands to significantly benefit from improved testing.”
AFRL RQH / MACH-TB
“Their design has the potential for a quick response interceptor against strategic hypersonic weapons.”
52, Counter WMD
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